Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

ARWadsworth · 2011-10-20T21:48:48+00:00

Just found this on on the BBCiPlayer for those that are interested and can view it info.Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements.Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments - a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.Electricity is not just something that creates heat and light, it connects the world through networks and broadcasting. After centuries of man's experiments with electricity, the final episode tells the story of how a new age of real understanding dawned - how we discovered electric fields and electromagnetic waves. Today we can hardly imagine life without electricity - it defines our era. As our understanding of it has increased so has our reliance upon it, and today we're on the brink of a new breakthrough, because if we can understand the secret of electrical superconductivity we could once again transform the world.

Oct 20, 2011 26 Replies

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ARWadsworth 14 years ago

I am pretty sure it is just a week for most programmes, however a repeat of the show resets the clock to for another seven days (at what percentage of programmes are repeated?). Although some programmes are definitely on longer than 7 days.

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ARWadsworth 14 years ago

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>>>>> More info.

Part 1, available until the 27th

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Part 2, also available until the 27th

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very oddly they are not showing on the iPlayer web site! I googled them.

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Steve Firth 14 years ago

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Thanks Adam, that's useful.

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Huge 14 years ago

When does Jim Al-Khalili get to do any academic work ... ?

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Mike Tomlinson 14 years ago

In article , Huge writes

Or Brian Cox for that matter...

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Huge 14 years ago

Indeed. He was even on QI recently. He's bleeding everywhere;

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at least has the excuse of being the Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey so it's part of his remit.

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Steve Firth 14 years ago

The question is academic.

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